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By Jeremy Kirby
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Tenth grade science class was horrifically boring. The red-bearded teacher wrote furiously on the chalkboard while mumbling some Einsteinian gibberish. I was supposed to understand it but was losing the struggle against sleep. Eventually the battle was lost and I drifted into a lesser state of consciousness. Some while later, I felt a hand rest firmly on my left shoulder and I instantly opened my eyes. My teacher had left the board and was walking in all of his intensity down my lane of desks, straight toward me. I began to get nervous, as I knew I was caught, but then he whisked right past me. I turned to see who had awakened me but no one else was there.
That was the first; I’ll skip the similar second, and go straightway to the third instance of my experience.
It was a bright and sunny Father’s Day afternoon. My entire family was gathered together in my parent’s backyard in celebration of the day. We talked, we laughed and ate. It was a great time. Suddenly, the sound of a door swinging shut caught my attention. I looked and out came my mother balancing two armfuls of gift bags. She walked around handing out the bags accordingly to each father there. I was the only man who did not receive one. It was a gesture of kindness; nevertheless, it highlighted my sadness and longing for children.
My wife and I had been together for over five years and were desperately hoping to start a family. We eventually yielded to our desires and made an appointment with the doctor.
I handed the baggy enclosing a sterile, seed containing, cup to the young woman at the counter.
“Is it still warm?” she asked.
My face flushing a bit, I gave her a quick nod and she disappeared into the lab to do the count. That was the first of many “donations”.
Visit after visit we tried without success to get pregnant. Even after the fertilization medicine given to my wife and the extensive procedures used to inseminate her, we had no success.
I stared at my wife who stared at the wall, both of us waiting for the doctor to arrive. Finally, he entered the small room with a grin on his face.
“You’re pregnant!”
Overjoyed wasn’t the word, we were ecstatic! The doctor went on to explain that there were not only one, but three fertilized eggs.
Not long after that wonderful day, my wife’s body miscarried those precious babies. We held each other, trying to hold the pieces of our broken hearts together.
We never went back to see that doctor again. We gave away all of our baby items we had accumulated and put the situation into the hands of God. If we were going to have children, it would be by His will and in His timing.
“So where’s the miracle in that?” you ask. It’s only a sad story that we have heard repeatedly from a hundred different people. I will reply to you the last chapter of this story:
Two years down the road of our lives, I stood in a freshly painted nursery. I had painted it sky blue with fluffs of clouds here and there floating high on the walls. There were tall blades of grass growing out of the trim all around the room. We had added the last touches and I now stood at the dresser putting away new clothes for our new baby boy.
Gently and without a doubt, I felt a tug on my shirttail. Again, there was no one else in the room. For a fraction of a moment, I was unsure of the situation but then I realized.
Three little girls entered my mind. I could almost see two bashfully stand back while the third caught daddy’s attention. I knew they must be amazing to have talked God into letting them surpass the precipice of Heaven to see their “almost home”.
You see, I thought I had lost something that day when my babies died, but with God, nothing is lost. I have three boys today and I know for a surety that I have three little angels in Heaven.
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